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Bravo! It's been a pain staking two weeks.

I have four children, nearly 19, 15, 7 and just turned 3. The eldest stopped believing at about 10 or 11, or at least she made out she believed, the 15 year old stopped around the same age, my 7 year old is an avid believer and I don't think my 3 yr old knows who he is. It's shattering when you find out they don't believe. But I still give them all a stocking, except the eldest as she's left home. It does amuse us watching the 15yr old open his stocking, but he's very good at keeping up the pretence for the sake of the youngest two.

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That's food for thought, Marie.My tutor has not really discussed in lenght the oral, not to the point of topic examples, but I'm sure she will as she did guide us when we did the GCSE (same teacher). A PM might come in handy in the future, thanks. I take it you're a French teacher.

I'm also curious, I agree with both Christine Animal and Twinkle as to the answer.

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James   (Francis Durante)

I'm doing AQA aswell, I did the GCSE two years ago with AQA also. I'm finding it quite a challenge because I'm in adult education, and finding time to study can be difficult at times with family and family life. Also we are doing the AS in 75hours when school students have 115hours, so more homework.So you are using the Elan 1 book? I haven't even thought about the oral yet, won't bother until after Xmas. Just made a start on the purple booklet. I don't think you should feel at a disadvantage, there's a bit of re-capping of some GCSE stuff, mainly grammar, in the earlier units of the Elan 1 book, but I agree, a lot more indepth. Glad to discuss and/or help at anytime. Regards,

This morning I received a letter from our Notaire who dealt with the sale with this reply, summarised. "With regard to your CU which was obtained at the time of sale acted as an information memorandum which does not open any right to build. The commume of Savigné is currently being re-zoned and you will be given an answer to your P de C request when the zoning has been finalised. If you had obtained a P de C before the PLU modification, you could have built your house even if the zone was to become non-constructable." So we have to wait until July 2007 when the zoning had been finalised, with the information I have, the decission to our request will most likely be 'No'. I haven't had a reply as yet from the Notaire who was going to contact our Maire. I have the most beautiful photo of our plot of land with the sun shining and blue skies, on the wall, and I can hardly bring myself to look at it. I'm even considering taking it down. I can't believe this has happened. Regards,

What exam are you doing? Is it for AS/A2 Level French. Just curious as I'm a few weeks into an A-level French ( the AS year, not A2) course and will be following this thread with some interest.

Familly have now changed their travelling day to through the week after being advised by the ferry company that it's a bank holiday and most things will be closed. Regards,

Thanks Twinkle for your reply, since writing my question the ferry company has telephoned my father-in-law and informed him that it's a bank holiday and they are now going through the week. Regards,

I apologise for asking a silly question.    I have familly who are going on a shopping trip to Brittany this week-end. I know that it's Jour d'armistice, will some, most, if not all shops, markets and restaurants be closed this Saturday. Regards,

I apologise if this is a silly question.     I have familly who are going to Brittany on a shopping trip this week-end. I know that it's ' Jour d'armistice, will some, most, if not all shops, markets and restaurants be closed on Saturday. Regards, 

I had a look in a rather chunky sized dictionary that does have references to medical terms, but couldn't find anything to match, sorry I can't be more helpful.

   Since receiving the above mentioned letter, I have written, faxed, e-mailed and made numerous phone calls to our Notaire who dealt with the sale, and two other Notaires, and the DDE in Civray, and our Maire, and two solicitors in England. Only one of the notaires, not ours, has responded to our request for some help.He has looked over our Deeds and CU, which is for a house, not convertion of the barn.    He is going to write a letter to our Maire asking if we can build a house, which, of course he still might refuse. Whilst I am grateful for his assistance, I was hoping someone would be able to do something with a bit more 'umph' to acheive a postive result. So he writes the letter and the Maire still doesn't grant permission...then what.We know the reason they cannot give us a definate decision is because of the re-zoning that won't be concluded until July 2007,( which we knew nothing about until we tried extending the CU back in June ) but it seems so injuste to be put in limbo like this.This notaire also informed me that a CU is just a document of information, not an agreement, so in my opinion, not worth the paper it's written on.    So we continue to have restless nights until we hear what the response is from the letter to the Maire.   

My dictionary says exactly the same as Cassis.

Well, it seems to be going from bad to worse. After lots of phone calls and letter writing, it seems that we cannot and never will be able to build our dream house.Mainly due to the re-zoning. All we are most likely be allowed to do, when the final decision had been made on the re-zoning ( July 2007 ) is convert our small barn with a 'chance' of making it larger. It's only about 5m x 6m max. When we were in discussions with the estate agent about possibly buying the land, he 100% assured us that a new build house could be built, but we made a clause suspensive we'd only continue with the purchase if a C d' U was approuved, this wasn't just mentioned the once, but several times, he even took us back to his office and showed us a catologue of new build houses, so there could not have been any misunderstanding of our intentions for the land. I am now beginning to wonder if there was an error with the CU application. It was clear from the start that we wanted to build a house not convert the barn, that was never discussed, it's the last thing that we want to do. If I remember correctly, the first time we saw the CU was when we signed the Acte de Vente and as best we could see, it was as we thought. The Notaire even said to us "now you can build your house"...yes, but not attached to the side of the barn.We were in contact with our estate agent regularly, waiting for the sale to complete and asked if the CU had been approuved, no mention of  "ah, yes, but, it can only be for...". We would never have bought the land if we could not build a house. I have been in touch with the Notaire who handled our sale but I have also consulted two other Notaires for their opinions on the matter. I said to one of them, only this morning, if you buy a terrain à bâtir, surely you can build, he agreed and then asked me to forward on the A de V and C d'U for him to look over. I'm also worried that we haven't bought a terrain à bâtir after all. I feel the estate agent misinformed us, and we trusted him that everything was ticking along as we wanted.I'm not sure where or whom the blame lies, problably us for note double checking everything and double checking again. And if someone has made an error or deceived us, how do you prove who, nothing's written down, it's talk.I myself also feel stupid for not really realising that this could have happened. We did some homework but I guess not enough. But you can't know it all from the start. That's how it basically is at the moment. We are now waiting to hear from a Notaire whose had our documents for a couple of days and I only sent off the CU and A de V today to the other one, so hopefully we will have some information the middle of next week. To be honest, I think it looks very bad for us. Sorry, this thread seems to be turning into a blog, I didn't mean it to turn out like a diary but thought our circumstances might be informative to others. Our French dream is fast slipping through our fingers. Regards,

I thought as much, but thanks anyway. I'll have to pick a friends brain to see how I can overcome this PC problem. Regards,

Yes, for the Poitou-Charentes, particularly the Vienne. Thanks for the link but it still didn't respond, must be my PC or something. I'm not at all in the know about PC's, I just click and hope for the best. Regards,

Yes, for the Poiyou Charente, particularly the Vienne. Thanks for the link but it still didn't respond, must be my PC or something. I'm not at all in the know about PC's, I just click and hope for the best. Regards,

Has anyone had any success in accessing the DDE web site as I haven't. I've tried several times on many links but it loads for ages and then says 'web site not responding'. Regards,